Jean-Charles François
Jean -Charles François ( born May 4, 1717 Nancy, † March 22, 1769 in Paris) was a French engraver and etcher.
François was a pupil of the painter Claude Charles in Nancy, but learned the Kupferstecherei largely self-taught. As a 16 - year-old he got a big contract to engrave tableware, for which he went to Dijon. He then lived in Lyon, where he stayed for seven years, the first attempts of his new method was doing, " imitate the grain lines of chalk or red pencil drawings etched by puncturing work". In 1740 he published the Principes de dessein faciles, in which he introduced this technique. In Paris he continued these experiments and in 1757 he succeeded to imitate exactly the first tests, chalk and pencil drawings in the lurch, the so-called crayon.
He submitted to the Académie Royale a six engraved in this technique leaves, which earned him a royal pension of 600 livres. In 1758 he received the title of engraver of the Cabinet du Roi dessein you.
By this method, François is for the French graphic of particular importance. " Its merit is to have made the puncturing technique of engraving by the connection with the etching practical and artistic easily recyclable ."
This method was further improved later by Gilles Demarteau and Louis -Marin Bonnet.
In addition to numerous individual papers François has also created a number of stitches for the panel works, including Emmanuel Heres Recueil Des Jardins plan elevation ... Chateaux Et Dependances Que Le Roy De Pologne occupe en Lorraine ... and the work Antiques du Cabinet de Mr. Adam.
François was the husband of the painter Marie Catherine François.